"More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight."

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Source : Morgan Spurlock (2006). “Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America”, p.65, Penguin

Morgan Spurlock

#Children Quotes #Epidemics Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.”
“There is only one thing you should know. Conquer yourself.”
“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”

Source : Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.28, Penguin
“We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.”
“You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.”
“The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.”
“The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.”
“The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.”

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